Advisory Board Member Profile 2018

Ritesh Agrawal

UberLead, Intelligent Infrastructure Systems

Areas of Expertise

Big Data Strategy; AI & Machine Learning

A leading data scientist for optimizing infrastructure, Ritesh Agrawal at Uber leads the Infrastructure Analytics and Science team. The team focuses on scaling data infrastructure for Uber’s growing business needs now and foreseeable in the future. Before Uber, Ritesh specialized in predictive and ranking models at Netflix, AT&T Labs and Yellow Pages where he built scalable machine learning infrastructure with technologies such as Docker, Hadoop, Spark, and more. A Ph.D. scholar from Pennsylvania State University (State College) in Environmental Earth Science, Ritesh’s thesis focused on computational tools and technologies such as concept map ontologies.